One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
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Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
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I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
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Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.
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Affectation is a very good word when someone does not wish to confess to what he would none the less like to believe of himself.
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Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law; all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.
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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.
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It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists.
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Man is a gregarious animal and much more so in his mind than in his body. A golden rule; judge men not by their opinions but by what their opinions have made of them.
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To receive applause for works which do not demand all our powers hinders our advance towards a perfecting of our spirit. It usually means that thereafter we stand still.
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